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An Analysis of Taylor Swift's Song Lyric The Man Using Feminist Literary Criticism Theory
No full textFeminism was developed to defend women's rights and roles in society. It is a result of the evolution of culture and social structure, which increasingly differentiate the roles of women and men. The differences between women and men give rise to discrimination, leading to harassment. It is because gender equality still becomes an important problem in the modern era. Related to this, a song is an effective medium for conveying a message. It is because the message will be communicated through the song's story. Many celebrities raise the issue of feminism in their work, one of which is the famous singer Taylor Swift. This study aims to learn about the role of women and social meaning in Taylor Swift's song lyric The Man. For instance, the perception of women in society, their position among men, and the daily discrimination they confront. The data in this study was derived from the lyrics of Taylor Swift's song The Man. The qualitative research method was used to analyze the data in this study. The lyrics of The Man's songs are analyzed utilizing feminist literary criticism theory as the guidelines. The findings show that this song contains many elements of feminism. It is because Taylor Swift, throughout this song, wants to express her concerns about discrimination and gender equality
The Use of VOA to Improve the Listening Skills of the First Semester Students of English Education Program of STKIP Kie Raha Ternate
No full textThis research aimed to investigate whether or not the students’ listening skills can be developed through VOA. Based on the result of the teaching and learning process especially in the listening subject, The researcher found that many students still had difficulty recognizing the sound of words, the meaning, and the content in English when hearing the spoken version. These indicate that the student's ability in listening comprehension is still low. The population in this study was all students of the English Department Program. They are 53 students who registered for the 2022/2023 academic years. The sample was taken from first-semester students, they are 13 Students. To collect the data, the researcher used a test. Based on the findings and discussion, the researcher concludes that: The data show that the students' listening effectiveness before and after the treatments is a significant difference. It was found in the students' post-test was higher than the pre-test, which proved that the use of VOA in teaching listening skills contributed to the students' being more effective in listening to English. And using VOA can improve the students' listening ability even though the results of them are different. It can be seen through their increasing score from pre-test to post-test
An Analysis of Billy Joel’s Song Lyric Vienna Using Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism Theory
No full textPsychoanalytic criticism employs Freud's and following theorists' "reading" techniques to interpret texts. It is argued that literary texts, like dreams, reveal the author's unconscious desires and worries; a literary work is an expression of the author's neuroses. It is possible to psychoanalyze a specific literary character, however it is generally accepted that all such characters are reflections of the author's personality. A remarkable characteristic of this method is that it affirms the significance of literature by utilizing a literary key for decoding. Freud himself penned, "The dream-thoughts that we first encounter in the course of our analysis often blow us by the unusual form in which they are expressed; they are not clothed in the prosaic language typically employed by our thoughts, but are instead represented symbolically through similes and metaphors, in images resembling poetic speech". This analytical attempt, like psychoanalysis itself, seeks evidence of unresolved emotions, psychological conflicts, guilts, ambivalences, etc. within a potentially disjointed literary work. The author's personal childhood traumas, family life, sexual difficulties, and fixations will be reflected in the conduct of the literary work's characters. Yet psychological material will be expressed indirectly, disguised, or encoded (as in dreams) via concepts such as "symbolism" (the repressed object represented in disguise), "condensation" (many thoughts or individuals depicted in a single image), and "displacement" (anxiety located onto another image by means of association). Many artists expressed their thoughts, anxiety, and buried dreams through song lyrics. One of which is Billy Joel with his song Vienna. The qualitative research method was used to analyze the data in this study. The lyrics of Vienna’s song are analyzed utilizing psychoanalytic literary criticism theory as the guidelines. The findings show that this song contains many elements of psychoanalytic through the metaphors that Billy Joel used in the lyrics
Students’ Grammatical Cohesion in Essay Writing
No full textCohesion plays an essential part in writing. This study aims to find out what grammatical cohesion device students used in writing. This study is a qualitative study. It was conducted during the semester. Fifteen university students studying essay writing participated as participants of this study. The students’ writing drafts were collected and analyzed. Content analysis was applied. The results showed that the students use two grammatical cohesion devices in their essay writing; references and conjunction. References consist of personal references, demonstrative references, and comparative references while conjunction consists of additive conjunction, adversative conjunction, causal conjunction, and temporal conjunction. On the other hand, there were two grammatical devices that were not found in students writing draft substitution and Ellipsis devices. Thus, those two devices are mostly found in oral communication. It means that the analyzed passages do not expose all of the cohesion devices sufficiently and provide too many highlights on one type which is the reference. This fact showed that the sentences within the text should not be connected by the existence of all cohesion devices. Some of the adequate devices were as much as necessary to create a series of sentences called a text. Some presence of them is already enough to create cohesion
Types of Code Switching Used by Parents on Instagram
No full textCode switching is a phenomenon that will always occurs in bilingual community. People will consciously do code switching in their communication when they have the ability to speak two or more languages. It occurred not only in oral communication but also when they used written form communication on social media like Instagram. This study aimed to analyze the types and speech function of code switching found in parents’ comments on Instagram. This study used qualitative descriptive method to create clear and well organize analysis of the data. The data itself collected from Parentalk.ID Instagram comment section, from feeds posted on May until October 2021. In analyzing the data, the writer used the theory proposed by Romaine (1995) to identify the types of code switching and Appel & Muysken (1987) to analyze the speech functions of code switching from the data source. The study concluded that the most types of code switching used is intra-sentential switching and the speech functions are metalinguistic function that used to show off someone’s language skill and referential function that occurred because of lack of knowledge or language facilit
Feminism in A Room with A View Novel: Critical Analysis
No full textFeminist play with a range of choice in the process self-presentation, registering a relation both to the body and to the social meaning of womenhood. The main focus of this research is comparing and measuring the feminist issues by reading the novel "A Room with a View". The purpose of this study is describing feminist issues that happened in the novel. This type of research is qualitative descriptive, the writer uses observation documentation as the technique of gaining and measuring data with reading intensively. The sample data in this research was every scenes that the writer belief the dialogue was cosists with feminism act, read intensively in every scenes. Based on the observation, the writer find some topic and issues that happened in the novel "A Room with a View", the problem faced by the author is the language style that use in the novel, so the writer decide to read intensively to knowing the true meaning of each dialogues. This research concluded that there was a lot of feminism issues that happened in the novel "A Room with a View" even though there are still obstacles with problems to understand with the language style.
Keywords: feminist, a room with a view, nove
A Study of the Implementation of the Discovery Learning Model on the Speaking Skills of Class VIII Students at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Darul Ulum Sasa Ternate City
No full textThe aims of this research are to find out the percentage of students' speaking skills complete before and after using the discovery learning model at the students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Darul Ulum Sasa and to find out whether the discovery learning model is effective in improving students' speaking skills or not. This research is descriptive in nature which aims to describe or describe the percentage of mastery values of speaking skills before and after the use of the discovery learning learning model. The method used in this research is an experimental method of Quasi Experimental Research with a research design of "One Groups Pretest-Posttest Design". The result of the percentage of students' mastery speaking skills value is very high after the application of the discovery learning learning model is 97,96% compared to the percentage of students' speaking skills mastery scores before the implementation of the discovery learning learning model is 100% incomplete. The average value of the students' speaking skills after the application of the discovery learning model is 84,41 was higher than the average value of the students' speaking skills before the application of the learning model is 53,47. There is a relationship between the students' speaking skills scores before (pretest) and after (posttest) the application of the discovery learning learning model is 55.2%. The percentage of the effectiveness of the application of the discovery learning learning model in increasing the value of students' speaking skills is 66.95% or the Quite Effective category
Factors Affecting Speaking Performance
No full textIn learning a foreign language, speaking is an essential component as it is used to deliver the meaning to interact and connect with one another. It is also often seen as an indicator of success in learning a foreign language. However, due to its interactive character, speaking in a foreign language has been identified as the most difficult ability for language learners. The study was an integrative literature review that aimed to unfold the factors that might affect speaking performance of foreign language learners. Due to the rapid pace of research, it is difficult to keep up with state-of-the-art research, so a literature review is necessary. The goal of the study is not to cover all articles ever published on the topic, but rather to combine information and ideas from different fields or past studies. In conducting the review, it will use taxonomy or classification in analyzing the reviewed studies. Approximately 20 studies including those published in research articles, book chapters, books, and other types of publications that concern the factors that may affect speaking performance are being reviewed. The finding suggests that five factors are named as determinants of speaking performance. Those are lack of L2 exposure, inhibition, anxiety, learner autonomy, motivation, and teaching pedagogy. Lack of exposure, inhibition, and anxiety were considered as negative factors of speaking performance, meanwhile a higher degree of learner autonomy and motivation as well as appropriate teaching pedagogies could be beneficial to boost FL learners’ speaking performance
An Analysis of students’ anxiety factors of EFL students’ Speech Production
No full textEnglish Foreign Learners (EFL) students are considered to master English when the students can speak in English fluently which can be seen from their speech production. Nevertheless, becoming fluently competent is particularly difficult for foreign language learners as it is influenced by a number of factors. Among the several factors which affect foreign language learning especially speaking, anxiety emerges to be the crucial one that has a debilitating effect on the oral performances of students. This study was purposed to analyse speaking anxiety level and factors of English Foreign Language student’s anxiety in speech production. The data were gathered from qualitative research with random sampling conducted on the second semester consist of 30 students taking Speaking for Academic Communication class at Hamzanwadi University. A closed-ended questionnaire of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and semi-structured interviews was administered to the participants to explore the anxiety level and the factors of their anxiety in speech production. The results show severe anxiety level which indicated that students are highly anxious when speaking English. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the factors contributed to the students’ speaking anxiety were shyness with audience, fear of not being able to convey the message well, lack of preparation, low self-confidence and low-proficiency.
Keywords: foreign language anxiety, speaking anxiety, speech production, anxiety factor
Is the Direct Method still Effective in Teaching English Speaking Skills in Indonesia?
No full textThis study aimed to find out whether the direct method is still effective in teaching English speaking skills especially in Indonesia context. By employing a classroom action research and library research, it was found that the direct method has been underlooked by teachers and researchers in recent years. It could be seen from the decrease of publication under this theme at least the ones indexed by Google Scholar. Both the classroom action research and library research conducted suggested that the direct method is still effective in teaching English speaking skills in Indonesia. However, some suggestions were also made for the implementation of the direct method to be effective in the classrooms including the classroom activities, visual aids, and teacher’s foreign language proficiency